RACING DRIVER

Ken Kavanagh

1923 - 2019

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Thomas Kenrick Kavanagh (12 December 1923 – 26 November 2019) was an Australian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and racing driver. In 1952, Kavanagh became the first Australian to win a motorcycle Grand Prix race when he won the 350cc Ulster Grand Prix. In 1956, he won the Junior TT at the Isle of Man TT races. Kavanagh entered two Formula One Grands Prix in 1958 with his own Maserati 250F, firstly in Monaco where he failed to qualify, and lastly in the Belgian Grand Prix where he missed out on the race having blown his engine in practice, after having qualified 20th of 28 entrants. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Kavanagh is the 440th most popular racing driver (up from 443rd in 2019), the 263rd most popular biography from Australia (down from 230th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Australian Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Ken Kavanagh ranks 440 out of 1,080Before him are Gimax, Jan Magnussen, Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Bernd Schneider, Hans Binder, and Hermann Paul Müller. After him are Jan Flinterman, Emanuele Pirro, Graziano Rossi, Hiroshi Fushida, Pedro Lamy, and Héctor Rebaque.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Ken Kavanagh ranks 360Before him are Thea Beckman, Norman Smith, Dina Merrill, Giorgio Albertazzi, Noël Vandernotte, and Aage Larsen. After him are Paavo Lonkila, Nena, Eugenio Calabi, Břetislav Pojar, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, and Bülent Ulusu. Among people deceased in 2019, Ken Kavanagh ranks 400Before him are Stefan Angelov, Galina Volchek, Göran Malmqvist, Jürgen Kissner, Mary L. Good, and Ayşen Gruda. After him are Artur Brauner, Carolee Schneemann, Frans Andriessen, Carlo Maria Abate, Miguel León-Portilla, and Anatoly Krutikov.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Ken Kavanagh ranks 263 out of 1,143Before him are Mia Wasikowska (1989), John Finnis (1940), John Broughton (1952), David Malet Armstrong (1926), Catherine Martin (1965), and Danny Clark (1951). After him are Teresa Palmer (1986), Richard Bonynge (1930), Tones and I (2000), Horace Rice (1872), Edgar Moon (1904), and John Pilger (1939).

Among RACING DRIVERS In Australia

Among racing drivers born in Australia, Ken Kavanagh ranks 9Before him are Alan Jones (1946), Mark Webber (1976), Tim Schenken (1943), Mick Doohan (1965), Daniel Ricciardo (1989), Wayne Gardner (1959), and Casey Stoner (1985). After him are Vern Schuppan (1943), Frank Gardner (1931), Paul Hawkins (1937), Tony Gaze (1920), and Warwick Brown (1949).